Who We Are

Director of the Office of Women in Medicine
and Science (OWIMS),
Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and
Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy;
joint appointment in the Department of Pathology, Section on Comparative
Medicine.

Dr. Voytko received
her PhD in Anatomy from the State University of New York Health Science
Center at Syracuse in New York. Following postdoctoral work at The Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine, she joined the faculty of Wake Forest School of
Medicine in 1993. Dr. Voytko is a neuroscientist with a research focus on
determining the neurobiological basis of cognitive changes associated with
advanced age and menopause. She has been the Principal or Co-Principal
Investigator on several NIH-funded grants and serves on advisory boards
within and outside of the institution, and at government funding agencies.
Dr. Voytko has been extensively involved in increasing faculty development
opportunities at the WFSM, and is past chair of the institution-wide Faculty
Development Advisory Committee. She led the mentoring and leadership
activities of OWIMS {formerly the Women's Health Center of Excellence for
Research, Leadership, Education} (1998-2004) until assuming Directorship
of OWIMS. Dr. Voytko represented WFSM at the first National Workshop on
Mentoring held in Washington, DC. She has attended leadership workshops held
at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC, American Association
of Medical Colleges Professional Development Workshops, and was a Fellow of
the 2002-2003 class in the Hedwig van Amerigen Executive Leadership in
Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women.

Dr. Crandall has
been on faculty at WFSM since 1994. From 1989 to 1994, she was a
faculty member and Director of Faculty Development in Family Medicine at the
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. Dr. Crandall received her
Ph.D. in Adult and Community Education from the University of Oklahoma.
She earned a BS in Zoology from Western Illinois University, and Master's
degrees in Education and Epidemiology from the University of Illinois and
Wake Forest School of Medicine, respectively. Dr. Crandall has been actively
involved in face-to-face teaching for the past 20 years and has a
long-standing interest in medical education, faculty development, and
educational research. She has published several articles on medical
student attitudes, one of which was awarded Best Paper by an Established
Investigator (Division I) at the 1995 American Educational Research
Association (AERA) meetings. She was a member of the task force that
prepared the handbook for reviewers of research manuscripts, which was published
in the 2001 September issue of Academic Medicine. She designed the
“Accept, Revise, Reject” workshop for the Southern Group on Educational
Affairs (SGEA) to assist with increasing the pool of trained reviewers for
journals and educational research conferences. She has co-authored 10
funded Title VII HRSA primary care training grants and is currently Project
Director/Co-Director on two grants. Dr. Crandall is an active member of
the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, AAMC, AERA, SGEA, the Association
for Medical Education in Europe, and the European Association for
Communication in Health Care. She is a Fellow of the 2005-2006 class in the
Hedwig van Amerigen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program
for Women.

Ms. Groce came to
WFHS in 2006 and worked in Public Health Sciences, Social Sciences &
Health Policy for 7 years. While working with the Cancer Control Program, she
gained extensive experience in grant submission and recruitment of
study participants. In addition, she managed several clinical trial based NIH
grants involving designing questionnaires, conducting qualitative interviews
and focus groups, and collecting survey data. Since joining OWIMS in 2010,
Ms. Groce has served as the departmental financial manager and as the program
manager for the Research and Outreach Programs, where she has assisted in
seeking funding opportunities in women's health research, preparing grant
applications, coordinated the regional Women’s Health Research Day in 2011
and 2012 and managing the Women’s Health Undergraduate Internship Program.
She also uses her marketing experience, brought from her previous life as an
advertising executive, to promote the activities of the various OWIMS programs
within the institution. She received her Associates in Business
Administration from Wilkes Community College.

Ms. Barrett joined OWIMS in 2000 soon after
immigrating to the United States. Over the years, she has assumed
several roles within each of the OWIMS Programs, including serving as
Volunteer Coordinator for the Excellence Triathlon for 7 years
and onsite supervisor for the PHS-SSHP General Clerk for 12 years.
Ms. Barrett is the Program Coordinator for the OWMS Career
Development for Women Leaders Training Program, which began in 2008 and
will serve in that role for the new Early Career Development Program for
Women, scheduled to begin in January 2014. She is a certified Master CIW
Designer and is the Web Designer for the OWIMS website, developing
and updating content and publishing the OWIMS weekly newsletter: Weekly Links & News.
Additionally, Ms. Barrett administers the Academic Affairs, Office
of Faculty Development and Junior Faculty Mentoring Program (JUMP)
websites. She provides support to the OWIMS Central Office
and Leadership Program and works closely with Dr. Voytko on Office of
Faculty Development Programs, including New Faculty Orientation, Right from
the Start and Pathways to Promotion, which are institution wide programs
available to all faculty.

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